Posted on 10/02/2014 6:49:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
If Republicans take over both houses of Congress this fall, some observers have said, it’s an opportunity for the GOP to “show they can govern,” and GOP leaders like Sen. John Cornyn insist that Republicans will be “responsible adults” if they win.
But it’s not up to GOP leadership. It’s up to the Apocalypse Caucus.
Since the GOP takeover of the House in 2010, the pattern has become depressingly familiar: policy after policy getting dragged to the right, totally unnecessary crises and last-minute near-crises, performative belligerence as an end in itself, all driven by a large and increasingly powerful right fringe in the U.S. House.
Sahil Kapur’s in-depth profile of Rep. Steve King, one of the loudest voices of this fringe, shows how the hard right wields power over the Republican Party. King intentionally inflates the temperature on his signature issue, immigration, taking a hardline position and forcing other Republicans to meet him there. It reflects the worst instincts of conservative base voters and magnifies them. This funhouse-mirror version of conservatism, loud and angry, becomes the new standard that primary voters demand.
When 2015 rolls around, Steve King is going to have a lot more company. As the Republican House majority looks to add seats, both the House and the GOP caucus will shift rightward. The self-parodying display of conservatism required in red-district primary contests has resulted in a striking new crop of future members for the Apocalypse Caucus, reports Jonathan Weisman:
in at least a dozen safe or largely safe Republican House districts where more mild-mannered Republicans are exiting, their likely replacements will pull the party to the right, a move likely to increase division in an already polarized Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
A GOPe Senate would need to corral Rustler Reid, but McConnell is not the leader to do it.
McConnell looks and acts like an old woman. He might be slick on procedure, but he doesn’t look or act like a leader.
The Democrat media wants the GOP to rubber-stamp everything the Democrats want, even when Democrats aren’t in the majority. Call it ‘minority rule,” but it only applies when the Democrats are in the minority.
Sadly, the GOPe agrees with this milquetoast mentality.
As if when they held control the Dems weren't tripping over each other to push ever single policy not just to the left but to the farthest extreme of the leftist universe.
This is very common in the establishment press; when a Republican wins or looks like he or she is going to win they become “magnanimous” after having been cheerleaders for the Dems in power for years. They will write about “the hope” that Republicans can moderate, will be “bipartisan”, will hire Democrats in key positions, and will work together “for the good of the country” to ensure the continuation of the same failed policies. In other words, they will try to ensure that the same stuff that has been a total failure continues even though the parties change. And if it is a member of the Bush family or s Gerry Ford, they will probably win out. Remember it was the bumbler and stumbler Gerry Ford who appointed one of the most leftist justices in the history of the Supreme Court, JP Stevens, over the strong objections of conservatives who were familiar with his record on the Seventh Circuit. Since when do Democrats appoint conservatives to the Court over the objections of the base of THEIR party??
I love this article. It proves that a few principled conservatives can get the left’s undies completely bunched up.
If the GOP does take over Conservatives need to step up and help control spending. The last time the GOP controlled both houses they were so out of control that the Democrats were able to run as fiscal conservatives and many people who used to be reliable R voters realized there wasn’t much of a difference between the 2 parties so they didn’t vote D, they just stayed home.
This sounds like an admission to me, up to this point republicans have been neither responsible nor adult.
THE Classic tactic of the left: Refuse to acknowledge conservatives have a valid objective. The only reason they don’t cooperate is because they want to destroy all progress and anything else good.
This from the Democrat Daily Talking Points, originating in the 1990's as the commie propaganda generator to counter the daily scandals of the Clinton crime machine.
Democrats have talking points, without logic, reason, or facts. If you defeat one set of talking points, they change the subject with a new set of talking points, still with no logic or facts.
... ending with, "Bush's fault", and finally, "you're just racist."
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